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Professor Miriam Meyerhoff FBA

The intersection of language variation and change, language contact and language documentation; the sociolinguistics of languages in Vanuatu.
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA
Sections
Linguistics and Philology

Current post

University of Oxford Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College

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Professor Daniel Harbour

Theoretical linguistics, especially morphosemantics, morphosyntax and typology; underdocumented languages, especially Afroasiatic, Kiowa-Tanoan and South Caucasian; writing systems, their linguistic structure and decipherment.

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Professor Robert Ladd FBA

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Professor John Wells FBA

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